Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Epley
My position is there were things allowed in the OT that is not allowed today.
For example God made provision for the "hated wife and child" of polygamy.
He was not endorsing it but permitting it so is it with jewelry he permitted it. He commanded men to kill, told Hosea to married a harlot. He permitted those things or suffered them but NOT in the NT.
No eye for eye and tooth for tooth though it was permitted in the OT!
|
I understand that there were things that God allowed...but in many cases jewels, fine raiment, gold, etc., seem to be things He actually endorsed.
Also, the prodigal son...his father put a ring on his finger and fine clothing. (NT example)
I just don't see how wearing jewelry was cast in a negative light in the OT or the NT, except in reference to not being excessive, and modesty.
__________________
"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
|
Threaded Mode
